Con, the Car Conductor - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

There are times when even the most popular man working for any company will get into difficulties just like the least fortunate employee, with this difference, that when it's the popular man who finds the trouble, he also finds about ...See moreThere are times when even the most popular man working for any company will get into difficulties just like the least fortunate employee, with this difference, that when it's the popular man who finds the trouble, he also finds about everybody is willing to help him out. That's why Con, the car conductor who was not only one of the oldest, but also the most popular man working for the Hicksville Traction Company, won the enmity of the foppish son of one of the stockholders of the company by refusing to charge the young man's carfare and by being further guilty of "intolerable rudeness" by ousting the monocled one from the car for non-payment of fare, found the superintendent ready to come to his aid with the suggestion that he report for duty as usual, though ostensibly "fired" for the assuagement of the griefs of the son and his stockholder father, but that until the trouble blew over Con should disguise himself. Con cared little for the disguise, but it was its own recompense when it gave the old conductor a chance to "get even" with the youngster with the hated monocle. It was only a few days after his adoption of a disguise that Con had the pleasure of seeing the stockholder's son board his car. He discovered that the monocle was not altogether an affectation, for the young man was near-sighted. Thinking of this, Con put a car sign directly in front of the young man's vision, with the object of attracting his attention. But it was with malice aforethought that the sign was placed directly over the head of the simpering old maid opposite who jumped to the conclusion that the man staring was ogling her. This was too good an opportunity for the old maid to lose, and especially when the watching conductor dropped a hint into her ear that there was a policeman at the next corner, she decided to have the "masher" arrested. Then came Con's opportunity. He confidentially told the youth who was badly frightened when he learned of the scrape into which he had innocently been precipitated that he would save him. Con arranged this by making an opportunity for the lad to make a spectacular escape by leaping from one moving car into another while Con held back the policeman and the irate woman. He let the young man know, however, that he knew who he was, and made an appointment to meet him that night at midnight in a far-away graveyard. Thoroughly frightened when the conductor made his appearance at the graveyard at the appointed time, the stockholder's son became convinced that Con had not only saved his good name, but the family honor also, and insisted that his reward should come from the streetcar company. That was how Con got his long-looked-for raise. But there was one difficulty. He had to grow a real beard and keep on wearing it, no matter how much his fellow-employees chaffed him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less